While some PSOE ministers have begun to deploy themselves across Andalusian cities in events supporting their candidate and former government colleague, María Jesús Montero, she continues her crusade in defense of public services, becoming the main and almost sole argument of her electoral campaign. Montero talks about the deterioration of healthcare wherever she goes.
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From time to time, however, she steps out of her framework as happened today when she rebutted the thesis – reiterated daily by the Popular Party candidate – that the loss of the absolute majority would imply months of administrative paralysis.
The PP candidate, Juan Moreno, cites as examples what happened in Extremadura, in Aragón, and now in Castilla y León where his colleague Alfonso Fernández Mañueco still has no date for the investiture. For this reason, the current president warns voters that, for example, during that time he could not provide the promised aid to the countryside nor call for public service exams.
For Montero, that is, in every respect, a “blackmail” to the citizens. “The vote is free,” she has reminded and encouraged the electorate “to vote without fear, with enthusiasm and hope so that things change and we send the right wing home.”
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In the background of this struggle are the voters who to this day have not yet decided their vote – and given the electoral atmosphere in the streets, there must be many – who can lean towards the absolute majority that Moreno demands with the rapid constitution of the government to avoid uncertainties. And there may be a handful of former socialist voters there. Moreno needs them all to achieve the absolute majority, Montero, on the other hand, needs them to avoid a disaster. Almost the entire battle in these elections is played out on that key and on a large handful of possible voters.
Montero closed her day in Rota (Cádiz) in a long conversation, often amusing, with Carmen Amores, a philologist who has become a defender of the diversity of accents used by Andalusians. And there, of course, she also talked about healthcare and even said she hopes to retire working as a doctor in a health center.
Meanwhile, the Minister of the Presidency and Justice has been in Vícar, in Almería, where he visited a public agricultural school to, joining the crusade of his candidate, cry out against the privatization of education in Andalusia.
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